Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] want " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I do not even want to share you with him . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ People who feel suicidal do not necessarily want to die . |
| 33 | In many service businesses there is a growing number of people who do not necessarily want to progress in traditional career terms . |
| 34 | If in addition we require that the production function is said to satisfy the Inada ( 1963 ) conditions , but we do not necessarily want to impose these restrictions . |
| 35 | This is true in the sense that electors want stability and do not much want the higher thought . |
| 36 | Those who want to be paid-up , signed-up members and those who for one reason or another do not actually want to become a member but are keen to be kept informed , involved and used as the occasion demands . |
| 37 | Indeed , as far as -my self-interest is concerned , on what principle could I choose as an end sufficient in itself something which I do not spontaneously want ? |
| 38 | The aim of public policy — and of chairmen who do not merely want protection — should be to lean in the direction of involved shareholders , those who have a direct interest in a company 's fate . |
| 39 | The elderly do not always want to be on the receiving end , and any gift of food they offer us , whether it is a meal or just a pot of home-made jam , should be accepted with appreciation , for all such gifts are a part of the pattern of love in which they still wish to be involved . |
| 40 | I must admit that I do not always want to go to work but once I am there I nearly always have a really good time . |
| 41 | THIS is such a delicious offering , of the kind that makes you chuckle in recollection on the way home , that I do not really want to give the game away by saying too much about what goes on . |
| 42 | Is a certain situation or a certain person tempting you to eat the things you do not really want ? |
| 43 | A clever organiser with a history tutor on his hands may persuade the citizens of Chipping Camden that they do not really want a class in biology , they want one on Queen Victoria : but ( make no mistake ) that very persuasion will to some extent have injured the mainspring of voluntaryism in adult education in Chipping Camden . |
| 44 | I would like the same amount of performance as from the petrol engine therefore I do not really want a Land Rover Diesel . |
| 45 | Clearly if users present for treatment in ‘ bad faith ’ , that is , they do not really want to try to come off but are being either coerced or attempting to deceive ‘ authority ’ , then it is unlikely treatment will succeed . |
| 46 | MICHAEL Caine does not just want to star in front of the camera , he wants to star behind it . |
| 47 | She does not principally want to know what the data signify in themselves but how texts reflect processes of communication , and how and why they were used to organise purposeful action , make valid claims , or to express feelings . |
| 48 | English Heritage does not even want these sites investigated it seems , because they regard excavation as crude and too intrusive . |
| 49 | Clearly Littlewoods , the pools group and retailer , does not believe in either solution — or perhaps it does not really want to sell . |
| 50 | This stage is intended mainly to ease the initial awkwardness , the interviewer does not really want your detailed impressions of the weather or the route you took to get to the interview . |
| 51 | And if that child is sensitive and caring and does not wish to hurt or disappoint his parents , perhaps he may even enter the medical profession and spend years doing something he does not really want to do while denying himself the opportunity of fulfilling his life in the way he would have chosen . |
| 52 | For , like the most envious of step-mothers , she does not really want to leave anything worth having to John Major at all ; she wishes to live in Thatcherland , surrounded by mirrors all perpetually claiming her to be the one and only . |
| 53 | Frodo the Ring bearer does not really want to carry the Ring and offers it to the elf-queen Galadriel . |
| 54 | The seventeen year old does not always want to listen to the views of his father and mother , particularly if he has his heart set upon a motorbike ! |
| 55 | The careful diplomacy with which this point has been made was undermined when the New York Times reported an off-the-record comment at the Brussels meeting suggesting that Mr Clinton ‘ feels the compulsion to do something but does not actually want to get involved . ’ |
| 56 | For all these reasons , the Bosnian government does not much want its own capital to become a safe haven . |